‘The Gilded Age’ review on Sky: New Money, Old History – Media

Anyone troubled by real estate prices in German urban areas today should better avoid this chain. Because it’s New York from the HBO series gilded age Is it still possible for high-income earners to build a home near Fifth Avenue, in an area of ​​Manhattan shortly thereafter and to this day was unaffordably expensive, as the city was growing north at the time. If you want to get rich through real estate, you must have started in New York in the 19th century.

It is about economic growth, money and above all social status gilded age An American version of the History series Downton Abbey. Created by Downton AbbeyInventor Julian Fellowes, member of the British House of Lords as Baron Fellowes of West Stafford. In the Manhattan of 1882, Fellowes dealt not with the British gentry, their country houses, and domestic servants, but the financied New York gentry, their city mansions, and their domestic servants. The protagonist is a young Marianne Brooke (daughter of Meryl Streep and Louisa Jacobson), who relocates from rural Pennsylvania to her wealthy aunts (one of whom is Cynthia Nixon) and needs to be introduced to a better society.

To the chagrin of the guards of the elite circle – which prides itself on belonging to old New York and therefore the best – newcomers are swarming there at the same time. Manhattan was taken over by the new rich, namely railroad magnate George Russell (Morgan Spector), who and his wife built a new mansion at 61st and Fifth Streets. New money collides with old, and social reservations escalate into a social struggle in which more than just reputation is at stake. In the middle is the inexperienced Marian, who often wonders about the arrogance of these people and the strict rules of their world.

Marianne was not allowed to go out into the street alone by her aunts out of concern for the family’s reputation. So she is often accompanied and advised by her close friend Peggy Scott. She moves on to work as a secretary with Marianne’s aunts, but actually wants to be the first black female writer in the United States. Beside Downton Abbey Seeks gilded age For drama on every floor and corner of the estate, in the ballrooms and salons of the owners, and in the kitchens and cupboards of staff.

Although the principle listed Julian Fellowes through Downton Abbey Very successful, tried and tested, and sent gilded age Just like the hat creations on the heads of the New York ladies, the series looks very tried-and-true. The dramatic music doesn’t keep up with the plot, the Victorian streets of Manhattan look like computer graphics, in short: the whole story lacks soul. rich old man gilded age They brag that their ancestors were already on Mayflower Crossed over to the new world. But it is better to leave some things in the old continent.

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